iPad: If you'd rather create playlists as you listen to music rather than pre-created playlists, Couch Player is a simple queue-based music player built on intuitive gestures.

iPhone users may remember Panamp, one of our favorite alternatives to the iPhone's built-in music player. Couch is basically the iPad version of Panamp: Its main focus is easy playlist creation, done through the dragging and dropping of songs, artists, and albums through intuitive swipe gestures. You can even create multiple playlists and view your currently playing stuff in a cover flow-like view. And, like any good music player, it uses the music you've already synced through iTunes, so you don't have to do anything different on your computer.

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The app itself has one or two quirks, but nothing that make it unusable. It's a tad slow and jerky on my first-gen iPad (which isn't surprising), but it smooths out after it loads album art and stuff like that. It also seems to have a bug where you can create new playlists, but tapping the "X" to delete them does nothing (Update: The developer notes that this seems to be an iOS 5 bug only). Otherwise, it works fantastically well and really makes queuing up your music easy. Check out the video above to see it in action, or hit the link below to try it out for yourself.